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How do I force `sudo` to ask for a password each time when a specific command is used?
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You can set sudo to always ask for a password:
$ sudo cat /etc/sudoers
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# Please consider adding local content in /etc/sudoers.d/ instead of
# directly modifying this file.
#
# See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
#
Defaults env_reset, timestamp_timeout=120, pwfeedback
# Defaults mail_badpass
Defaults secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin"
In my configuration I have sudo timeout set at 2 hours (120 minutes) before it asks for a password again. Setting it to 0 will require password every time you use sudo